An Atheist Conference Is Being Criticized for Noting Its Diverse Speakers

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2. I'm relatively new to atheism

But as someone who is also childfree, it seems to be it's more difficult to manage a group based on a characteristic the members don't have instead of one they do, especially when it's so broad - in one case a desire to have children and in the other, a belief in a god. I've seen the difficulty that childfree groups - specifically No Kidding! - have gone through to set up and maintain groups because it's difficult to find activities that a majority of people will want to do since both childfree and atheists can run the gamut on so many different issues - politically, interests, hobbies, etc. Christians can find a church whose doctrine they believe in and then maybe a group within that church to also join, but if not, they still have the church. There are no churches in atheism that we can subdivide into so we're all one big group, more difficult to manage.

I also think that's one reason politicians don't like atheists. Sure, there's the likely attitude the religious normally have toward the non-believer to deal with, but since they're not in neat little groups, it makes it hard for the politician to address us.

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